Joseph Mujere

Of Outcrops and Narrow Seams: Geology, Tribute Agreements and Cooperative Chromite Mining along Zimbabwe’s Great Dyke, 1985–2022

This article argues that the development of cooperative chromite mining in postcolonial Zimbabwe was largely shaped by geological factors, particularly the geotechnical challenges of extracting the narrow (thin) and frequently faulted chromite seams in the northern section of the...